Description of benefits

Benefits shall be of the following descriptions– (a) sickness benefit, that is to say, periodical payments to an insured person who is rendered temporarily incapable of work otherwise than as a result of employment injury; (b) maternity benefit, that is to say payment, (i) to an insured woman of a maternity allowance by means of periodical payment in the event of her pregnancy or confinement; or 18 (ii) of a grant to an insured man in respect of his wife’s confinement or to an insured woman; (c) invalidity benefit, that is to say, periodical payments or a lump sum payment to an insured person who is rendered permanently incapable of work otherwise than as a result of (d) retirement benefit, that is to say, periodical payments or a lump sum payment to an insured person who has attained the age of sixty years; (e) funeral grant, that is to say, a payment on the death of an insured person, or of a person in such relationship to an insured person as may be prescribed; (f) survivors’ benefit, that is to say, periodical payments or a lump sum payment made in respect of an insured person who dies, otherwise than in consequence of an